
Elderly nuns escape nursing home in Austria and find way back to convent
Three Augustinian nuns (pictured on Sept. 16, 2025) fled their nursing home and returned to their convent in Austria. / Credit: Photo courtesy Nonnen_Goldenstein CNA

Three Augustinian nuns (pictured on Sept. 16, 2025) fled their nursing home and returned to their convent in Austria. / Credit: Photo courtesy Nonnen_Goldenstein CNA

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller said assassinated Christian activist Charlie Kirk “upheld and lived in defense of the beauty and sanctity of marriage and family” in

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for his Sunday Angelus in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 14, 2025. / Credit: Vatican

Pope Leo XIV presides over his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 17, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for his weekly general audience on Sept. 17, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit:

Widows Norma Pérez and Olga Pallares. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News Vatican City, Sep 17, 2025 / 17:19 pm (CNA). Norma Pérez, a widow for

Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 16, 2025, expelled from the clerical state an Italian deacon who was convicted of sexual offenses against minors. / Credit:

Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims at his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 17, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

St. Hildegard of Bingen. / Credit: Lettera43.it, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Sep 17, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). Every gift from the

Reem Alsalem is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls. / Credit: ADF International Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 16, 2025 /

Pope Leo XIV meets with Catholicos Karekin II, the patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, at Villa Barberini, the papal residence overlooking Lake Albano in

Silvia Toma before participating in the vigil with Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 15, 2025. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News Vatican City, Sep 16, 2025

Pope Leo XIV celebrates the prayer vigil for the Jubilee of Consolation on Sept. 15, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. / Credit:

Ferrara, Italy, resident Davide Andreoli and his family visit St. Peter’s Square for the Jubilee of People with Disabilities, Monday, April 28, 2025. / Credit:

Pope Leo XIV is pictured here with his Augustinian brothers in Rome on Sept. 15, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of Augustinian Foundation Worldwide ACI Prensa

Front view of Westminster Cathedral, London. / Credit: Adrian Pingstone on Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 15, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). The first

Pope Leo XIV presides over an ecumenical commemoration of the martyrs and witnesses of faith of the 21st century at Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul

Pope Leo XIV at a window of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, leading pilgrims in reciting the Angelus, on September 14, 2025, the pope’s 70th birthday.

Illuminated drones reproduce Michelangelo’s “Pietà” over St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on September 14, 2025. / Courtney Mares Vatican City, Sep 14, 2025 /

Pope Leo XIV waves at the crowds of people who braved a rainy morning for the general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 10,

Pope Leo XIV greets participants in a seminar organized by the Pontifical Academy of Theology, at the Vatican on September 13, 2025. / Pope Leo

Ferrara, Italy resident Davide Andreoli and his family visit St. Peter’s Square for the Jubilee of People with Disabilities, Monday, April 28, 2025. / Credit:

The venue of the VIII Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. / Credit: N. Nazarbayev Center for Development of Interfaith and Inter-Civilization Dialogue

Brian Burch, the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, presents his credentials to Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on September 13,